The midbrain or mesencephalon (from the Greek mesos, middle, and enkephalos, brain[1]) is a portion of the central nervous system associated with vision, hearing, motor control, sleep/wake, arousal (alertness), and temperature regulation.[2]
villa â(plural villas or villae). ( 1 plural villas) A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
Etymology [edit]. Probably Middle English villein, from Old French vilain (modern: vilain), in turn from Late Latin villanus, meaning serf or peasant, someone who is bound to the soil of a Latin villa, which is to say, worked on the equivalent of a plantation in late Antiquity, in Italy or Gaul.